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"Taanya is a beautiful, intelligent and multi-faceted computer science student in Mumbai. As she is about to pass out of college, her parents begin to talk about her marriage. That's when she tells them that she likes a boy called Tej and wants to marry him. Tej also loves her but is reluctant to accept the proposal because of a problem in his family. While he does not want to cheat her by keeping the truth from her, he is scared of losing her if he tells her about his family's problem. His friends try to convince him that every family has some problem so he need not even mention it to Taanya. Finally, when Tej and Taanya's families meet, there seems to be no problem and the proposal is mutually agreed upon. A grand wedding takes place and Taanya arrives in her sasuraal. The moment of shock come when all the rituals and ceremonies are over and the guests are all gone. Taanya realizes that Tej's household is full of men, just men. All the chachis, mamis, buas etc who attended the wedding had all gone and she was the only woman in the house. Taanya does not know how to handle this. Though in college days she was never uncomfortable among boys and she grew up with a brother, this was another feeling altogether. A life always surrounded by only men -- all strangers to begin with -- looks unimaginable. She stays put anyways but within twenty four hours she realizes that these men are like pebbles on a beach -- all different from each other and rubbing each other sour. She ...
Although not all of the people nowadays are familiar with the TV series, Science Fiction Theatre, it still has its own fan base that are very much into the series until now. In fact, there might be even children or grandchildren of people who were fond of this series in the past that know of this and even have collections of the series' episodes or are interested in getting copies of them.
Science Fiction Theatre was actually a syndicated anthology series based on science fiction. The producers of this US series are Maurice Ziv and Ivan Tors while its host was Truman Bradley. A former correspondent during war, Bradley was also a film actor during the 1940s. Each episode of the series presented stories which had pseudo-scientific or extrapolated importance and was based on authentic scientific data that was made available during the 1950s. The program's focus was more on such ideas as robots, flying saucers, space flight, time travel, telepathy and the extraterres trials' alleged intervention in the affairs of humans.
The program which ran since 1955 until 1957 had 78 episodes all in all that ran for a half hour each. In its second run syndication in the 1960s, the program was also called Beyond the Limits and Science Fiction Theater, alternatively. In all actuality, Science Fiction Theatre was known to be the predecessor of such shows bearing the same genre and among these are The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone. The program was even mentioned in the Back to the Future film in 1985, which starred Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Coincidentally, an actor named Michael Fox was also one of the most frequent actors that starred in the episodes of the program.
Looking back on the episodes of Science Fiction Theatre, it can be remembered by those who were fond of the science program that each episode had an introduction that consisted of a stirring fanfare of string, brass and woodwind. This musical score was played whi le the camera slowly panned over the infamous science laboratory of the program. Although he is not credited for it, it is believed that the introductory score of the program was a composition of Ray Bloch. After the intro, host Truman Bradley would the show a scientific experiment that could only be described as relatively simple but which has a connection to the topic of the show on a given week. Although the demonstrations presented by Bradley were mostly staged, the results that they yielded were really in harmony with the true experiments' outcome. Because of the intense scheduling of the production of the ZIV episodic shows for television and also because of budget constraints, the scientific apparatus and even those that were not that scientific that were used in the shows appeared time and time again as multi-function props.
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